Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-11-08
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
An Epitons Of Tho Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest


at auction in London for 100000.
Two people were killed and manl
injured in jam around Canton, O..
clothing store, where gift advertising
scheme was inaugurated.
Mrs. Jacob Steltzfus aid Mrs. Bar
bara Steltzfus, while out riding at Ian
caster, Pa, were struck by Pennsyl
vania train and instantly killed.
Reports received from Emery Gap
Colorado, say three Americans and one
Italian were killed in the premature
explosion of blast at that place.
The Russian schooner Johannee wa,
lowed into port at Copenhagen. Or
the voyage the carpenter murdered the
captain and five of the crew and threw
the bodies overheard.
A train on the Galveston, Harris
burg and San Antonio Railro d was
stopped by robbers near Ell Paso, Tex.
and two OF the robbers were killed
while entering the mail car.
The Colonial passenger steamer
Cheviot has been wrecked at Port
Philip, Australia. Thirty five passen'
gers and members of the crew were
drowned The mainder have ar
rived at Melbourne.
The steamer Uppa collided with and
sunk the German bark Planteur of
Beachy Head, near London. Eleven
persons were drowned, and the captain
of the bark has since died. Only two
of the crew survived.
Robert Neil's boarding house was
burned at Lake Edward. Three of the
boarders-Thomas Landus, of Norton
Mills, Vermont; VIM. Buchanan, OF
Little River, and George Sotton, Of
California-were burned to crisp.
At Moscow eleven detective officers
have just been found guilty of conniv-
! ing at the crimes of notorious robbers.
! Five of them were sentenced to hard
labor in the mines of Siberia, and the
Others at various terms of imprison-
ment.
Severe snowstorms are reported
throughout Italy, greatly injuring crops
and animals. The storm was accom-
panied by hurricane in some parts.
A number of houses were unroofed at
Pisa, and several persons were drowned
in Lake Como.
The schooner Herman Banson, from
the Grand Banks, near Gloucester, re-
ports that on September 30 she fell in
with the French fishing sloop St.
Pierre, water-losged. Ten men drowned
were found in her cabin. The weather
being very rough, the bodies were not
recovered.
Three coaches of the fast express on
the Chesapeake & Ohio road, going
west, were derailed by defective
switch near Charleston, w. ", and
two of them were turned completely
over. Twenty-six passengers were
more or less injured, but none were
killed outright Those injured were
on the way from Indiana, Kentucky
and the Eastern States. The company
is doing all in its power for the injured.
A destructive fire occurred at Han
Kow, China. 1t broke out in tea
house on the Han-Kow side of the
river Han, and after devouring some
800 houses on that side of the river
spread to iunks, and then to the other
side destroying 600 junks and 500 more
houses, beside some 2000 sampans. The
total loss of property, ahoat and ashore,
destroyed is estimated at fully 1000, 900
taels. The number OF lives lost is given
in round figures at 1000.
A freight train from Spartansburg
and a passenger from Atlanta collided
near Greenville, S. G. Both engineers
We're killed, and the total killed is esti-
mated at from three to ten. The COLI
sion was caused by the freight train
not side-tracking at Grier's to let the
passenger pass. The passenger train
consisted of nine coaches. Both en-
gines We're wrecked also the postal,
baggage and express cars OF the pas,
senger train, and the first three cars of
the freight. Engineer Harris and con-
ductor Reville of the freight train dis
A negro saw them running
through the woods. Ten persons, pas
sengers and train hands, were more or
less seriously injured.
An unfinished school building at.
tached to the church of Our Lady of |
Mt. Carmel, at New York, fell with a
crash while score of men were at
work in the building, under the super
vision Of Mr.. A. f. Kerner, the priest
in charge. Five were killed outright.
and ten more or less badly injured
Father Kerner has since died. The |
rest were workmen. The casualty was !
due to defective work hastily and
gnorantly done. The foundation was
laid scarcely two months ago, and the
side and rear walls were up above the
third story, while the front had hardly
been started Father Kerner had
been repeatedly warned that he was
going too fast with construction.
The following was telegraphed from
st. Louis; A strange story comes from
Lathrop, Mo, About month ago
Mrs. Andrew Letters, wife of farmer
living fourteen miles from there, was
'ut in the garden with her son. Two
makes were noticed fighting, and she
old her son to kill them. Taking a
zoe he smashed both of their heads.
Mrs. Letters intently Watching him ali
he time. A week ago twins were born
o her. The heads of both were fiat
md resembled snakes heads, while
holr tongues are protruding confirm
lily. No attempt has been made to
lothe the monstrosities, and they have